Letters: Selected Letters to Fa irCH.ch
Dear Alec,
I can support this as a scientists and individual person under the name of my entire organization (IRRI). Please feel free to add my name to the declaration in that sense.
Without proper population growth planning it becomes and endless battle that will consume huge amounts of precious natural resources. Dr. Achim
Dobermann; Deputy Director General - Research; International Rice Research Institute (www.IRRI.org); DAPO Box 7777; Metro Manila, Philippines
Dear Alec Gagneux,
I carefully studied your carefully written
declaration. It avoids the usual traps of
transcultural communication and the wording is very wise.
I support the declaration.
Christine von Weizsäcker, Germany (13.3.2007)
Dear Alec, Thanks to you, too. I
like your website a lot. It speaks to one of the really vital concerns of our times. Somehow, our human community has got to find the political, economic and moral will to redistribute wealth in a way
that provides substantial subsistence to all people, along with some education concerning the dilemma in which humankind appears to find itself in these early years of the Century XXI. Great effort. Thank you for it.
Very best personal regards, Steve (8-2005)
You gave me a flyer in the street in Zurich and I
read it with great interest as I am a former staff member of a large international agency with much experience in allocating scarce resources in developing countries.
However, your flyer moved me particularly because I had come
to Switzerland for four days only (it is so very expensive when you count in dollars) - to see a doctor and to visit my father's grave. It has been awful: the unbelievable and shameless greed everywhere (and I grew up in
Switzerland!), the cynicism; the contempt for everything except money.
I have no suggestions but the fact that you are our there trying to start a dialogue left me with some hope.
Thank you.
L.Soifer (4-2005)
